A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 459
nt largely upon theexperimental determination of the convertibility of heat-energy into other forms and into mechanical work, forwhich we are indebted to Rumford and Davy, and to the19 434 THE PHILOSOPHY OP THE STEAM-ENGINE. determination of the quantivalence anticipated by Newtonshown and… … Benjamin Thompson, Count Bumford. and the vis viva of the system or body arrested by frictionwere equivalent. In 1798, Benjamin Thompson, CountRumford, an American who was then in the Bavarian ser-vice, presented a paper to the Royal Society of GreatBritain, in which he stated the results of an…
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